{"id":3341,"date":"2010-07-08T11:04:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T15:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2016-11-21T17:26:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T21:26:17","slug":"needless-to-say-i-have-no-use-for-reading-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/needless-to-say-i-have-no-use-for-reading-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Needless to Say, &#8220;I Have No Use for Reading Recovery&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Needless%20to%20Say%2C%20%22I%20Have%20No%20Use%20for%20Reading%20Recovery%22\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"center aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px solid black; float: center;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/images\/bs\/read.tutor.girl.jpg\" width=\"442\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reading Recovery&#8217;s (RR) transition from New Zealand to the United States began at Barrington Elementary School in the Upper Arlington City Schools in Columbus, Ohio in the mid \u201980\u2019s in conjunction with Ohio State University.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first RR teachers in the United States was Joetta Beaver.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first dyslexic students taught using RR was Joseph James&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Letter to the Stranger Requesting Due Process <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cameron James, in his May, 1996 \u201cLetter to the Stranger\u201d requesting a due process hearing against Upper Arlington City Schools explained that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just before Joe\u2019s first grade year was to begin, his teacher contacted my wife and told her that Joe qualified for the Reading Recovery program and Joe would receive one- on-one instruction, daily, from Joetta Beaver. My wife reminded Joetta that Joe was dyslexic. However, Joetta said, \u201cI don\u2019t want to hear about his dyslexia. I\u2019m going to recover Joe.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Joetta Beaver had been our daughter\u2019s classroom teacher. She was also a teacher leader in Reading Recovery. We thought she new what she was doing. We considered Joetta and the other educators at Barrington as the \u201cexperts\u201d in deciding what to do about Joe\u2019s reading difficulties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Today, I have learned that Reading Recovery was probably the worst thing that we could have done to Joe. Due to Joe\u2019s dyslexia he had no natural phonological awareness and a poor visual memory. Instead of an intensive, systematic, phonological method like Orton-Gillingham, the Reading Recovery method teaches the child to use picture and context cues, and tries to get the child to memorize sight words. Every day, Joetta taught Joe to guess at words based upon what he saw in the pictures and his understanding of the sentence context.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Joe did not learn to read with the Reading Recovery method, but he did practice guessing at words day after day. This has had a devastating effect on Joe\u2019s learning to read. Every time he would guess and be wrong he felt he had failed. This will emotionally effect Joe the rest of his life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Joe got so frustrated that year that it changed his personality. Joe our happiest child was gone and Joe became a child who feared failure. Joe began to judge himself by his peers. They could read and he couldn\u2019t. Joe\u2019s self esteem dropped through the floor. Joetta was so determined to Recover Joe that she indicated to us that she had kept him in the Reading Recovery program \u201ctwice as long\u201d as normal. Joe finally got so upset that he refused to go to Reading Recovery and Joetta stopped her sessions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read the letter, go to:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/advoc\/stranger\/joejames.ltr.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/advoc\/stranger\/joejames.ltr.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">District Court Complaint<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the subsequent Complaint I filed in the U. S. District Court, I explained that:<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs are also seeking damages for the continued use of the wholly inappropriate whole language Reading Recovery teaching technique that was used to secure economic gain and benefit for the Upper Arlington School District and the Upper Arlington School District staff to the detriment of their son.<\/p>\n<p>In the body of the Complaint, I asserted that:<\/p>\n<p>19.\u00a0 At the time it was used with Joe, Reading Recovery was not proven to be successful in teaching dyslexic children how to read and write.<\/p>\n<p>20.\u00a0 Research conducted over the past several years has shown that Reading Recovery is not successful in teaching dyslexic children how to read and write.<\/p>\n<p>21.\u00a0 The parents were not informed that Reading Recovery did not have a proven track record with dyslexic children.<\/p>\n<p>22.\u00a0 Unknown at that time to Nancy and Cameron James, and upon present information and belief, the Upper Arlington School District, Joetta Beaver, and the Education Department of the Ohio State University either had, at that time, or have at present, entered into a business financial relationship with each other.<\/p>\n<p>23.\u00a0 The effect of said business and financial relationship is to generate income for the Education Department of Ohio State University by promoting the use of Reading Recovery.<\/p>\n<p>24. The effect of said business and financial relationship is to generate income for the Upper Arlington School District by promoting the use of Reading Recovery.<\/p>\n<p>25.\u00a0 The effect of said business and financial relationship has been to generate income for Joetta Beaver by promoting the use of Reading Recovery.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full complaint, go to:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/law\/pleadings\/jamesfedctcomplaint.doc\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/law\/pleadings\/jamesfedctcomplaint.doc<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Prevailing at the 6th Circuit<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I have no use for RR.<\/p>\n<p>While I made RR one of the primary psychological\/emotional themes of my case, that portion was not litigated. We lost at DP, Review Hearing, and District Court without any actual evidence or testimony being heard at any stage.<\/p>\n<p>However, in September, 2000, we prevailed at the 6th Circuit. Upper Arlington appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court who refused to grant cert and the case was then settled without going to an actual trial.<\/p>\n<p>Upper Arlington knew that we had the research and the experts lined up ready to testify that RR damages children with dyslexia. We also intended to prove that RR, Upper Arlington, and Ohio State had an insidious economic relationship, ergo, case settled.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Reading Recovery, Not for the Dyslexic<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Robin Hansen, in her article <span style=\"color: #000080;\">Reading Recovery, Not for the Dyslexic or Anyone Else<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> [no longer available]<\/span><\/span> says,\u00a0 &#8220;&#8230;it has now been proven that Reading Recovery&#8217;s &#8220;research&#8221; was flawed and the results were not impressive!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read some of the findings of reviews and other studies evaluating the impact of Reading Recovery.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000080;\">http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-4959-Special-Education-Examiner~y2009m4d29-Reading-Recovery-not-for-the-dyslexic-or-anyone-else<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> [no longer available]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Recovery&#8217;s (RR) transition from New Zealand to the United States began at Barrington Elementary School in the Upper Arlington City Schools in Columbus, Ohio in the mid \u201980\u2019s in <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/needless-to-say-i-have-no-use-for-reading-recovery\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1372,33,1375,161],"tags":[1308,609,95,1300,608],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-reform","category-reading","category-research","category-teachers","tag-dyslexia","tag-james-v-upper-arlington-school-district","tag-letter-to-the-stranger","tag-reading","tag-reading-recovery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19945,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions\/19945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}